Mind Body Health: Preventing the Flu Through Emotional Wellbeing

Photograph by Tanja Heffner

Gain control over your life — and avoid illnesses such as the flu — by choosing love and alignment instead of drugs to create peace in your body and in the world

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Influenza is spreading rapidly across the United States — but where’s the miracle drug to prevent and stop it? Pharmaceutical heaven is almost closed for the strain currently making the rounds. Health experts say this year’s vaccine doesn’t provide protection for H3N2, calling it only 10% effective. So how can we stop this flu from spreading?

The answer can be found by learning from the Spanish Flu pandemic and addressing what today’s flu outbreak has come to teach our world. The Spanish flu of 1918 was possibly the deadliest epidemic in recorded history, especially for people aged 20 to 40 years old. To understand why people in their prime were more vulnerable than others, let’s look at world happenings at the time.